Determinants and consequences of conscious visual awareness

通常，显著的图像可以在没有相应刺激变化的情况下从意识中消失。该项目基于一种创新的解释，将这种消失与功能适应联系起来，以促进在混乱环境中的视觉。项目的完成将扩大澳大利亚的知识基础，建立澳大利亚初级和高级调查员之间的联系，并提供良好的培训机会。在国际顶级期刊上发表研究成果将进一步推动澳大利亚科学向海外发展。最终，这项研究将对人工视觉系统的设计和实现产生影响，人工视觉系统必须克服人类视觉系统在混乱环境中面临的许多相同困境。

Usually salient images can disappear from awareness without corresponding stimulus changes. This project is based on an innovative account linking such disappearances to a functional adaptation which facilitates vision in cluttered environments. Project completion will expand Australia's knowledge base, forge links between junior and senior Australian based investigators and provide excellent training opportunities. Publication of research in top-ranking international journals will further promote Australian science abroad. Ultimately, this research will have implications for the design and implementation of artificial visual systems, which must overcome many of the same dilemmas faced by the human visual system in cluttered environments.